Tuesday, January 3, 2012

"Work It" Isn't Working

Tonight, January 3 marks the debut of ABC’s latest “Men Are
Stupid” comedies – Work It. After wisely dumping the fall season’s flop, Man
Up, they are trying out a Bosom Buddies-ish comedy. Buddies helped make Tom
Hanks a household name. The stars of Work It can only hope for the same fate.
Like its gender bender predecessor, Work It is embarrassing, offensive, not
funny and has a bad laugh track. Why ABC thought this show was a good idea is a
mystery.

In Work It, Lee and Angel are former employees of Pontiac
looking for work. It is suggested that the current recession is more of a
“man-cession” and their skills (salesman, head mechanic) are not in high
demand. Lee learns that a pharmaceutical company, Coreco, is looking to hire
new sales reps, but only female sales reps. Lee responds with raiding his
wife’s closet and interviewing for the job as a woman. Surprise! He gets the
job. He then tells Angel of his new opportunity and guess what? Angel gets a
job as a woman as well!

Lee hides his new secret from his wife and daughter but
learns how to be more sensitive to their needs. Angel develops a crush on his
boss, who is said to be a lesbian. Let the high jinks begin.

Lee is played by Ben Koldyke, a fairly new actor who has
made a few appearances in How I Met Your Mother, Big Love and 24. He is
certainly likeable and might go far, if he can find a way out of this sitcom.
Amaury Nolasco plays Angel who’s been featured in big screen movies like
Transformers and The Rum Diary. From the pilot, it’s hard to tell if two have
much chemistry or not due to the wild set up.

In short, Work It is just dumb. It has a one joke set up
that can’t carry a series anymore than BB did decades earlier. It’s ironic,
that in the now deceased show, Man Up, the wives wanted their husbands to be manlier.
In Work It, the men “need to learn how to be better men by having to be better
women.”

Work It follows Tim Allen’s Last Man Standing (whose pilot
was nothing to shout about either, but has improved greatly) and appears before
the première of Celebrity Wife Swap, a show that sounds tacky but is actually
quite good. You might want to do a few chores around the house between the two.

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